Anyone checkout the new Outlook.com web mail site? I just signed up to use Outlook.com which is basically Outlook in the cloud. I must say it actually works very well. I used to use Earthlink webmail to read my email on devices that don't have my personal email setup but now I'll just use Outlook.com to real all of my various email accounts. It's really a nice one stop shop that looks and works well. This will be great when the new Xbox dashboard is released with a fully functioning web browser.
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Blazkowicz
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the name is great, microsoft would have called it "Windows Live 365 Office Mail" not so long ago.
the question, "is my old MSN account a windows live ID", or "is current-name-of-MSN-messenger tied to hotmail again" was a reason for not getting back into MSN IM. I liked the area where everyone was on MSN. I could participate in, now facebook scares me too much. lifetime record of everything all tied to real names.
(also, youtube didn't exist so you would either download video, with content worth of it being downloaded, or you had wmv streaming so you could play full screen video on a 500MHz computer)
the question, "is my old MSN account a windows live ID", or "is current-name-of-MSN-messenger tied to hotmail again" was a reason for not getting back into MSN IM. I liked the area where everyone was on MSN. I could participate in, now facebook scares me too much. lifetime record of everything all tied to real names.
(also, youtube didn't exist so you would either download video, with content worth of it being downloaded, or you had wmv streaming so you could play full screen video on a 500MHz computer)
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Silent_Buddha
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Interesting. So, the good and the bad.
The good.
- Automatically converted my hotmail.com account to outlook.com while keeping the e-mail address.
- It seems to be faster than the old hotmail.com.
- Initial load is now much faster than gmail.com.
- Searching seems to be a fair bit quicker than hotmail.com was and is fairly robust. I can't compare the search speed to gmail since I don't have much in gmail. At least nothing to compare to my 15+ years of e-mail in my hotmail account. But that said, searching is blazing fast. I'm rather astonished at the speed with which searches are carried out.
The bad.
- I don't like the layout as much as hotmail.com
- Can't go back to hotmail.com anymore.
Overall, it'll likely just be a matter of getting used to it. I'll probably still continue to access my mail account through Outlook itself, however.
Regards,
SB
The good.
- Automatically converted my hotmail.com account to outlook.com while keeping the e-mail address.
- It seems to be faster than the old hotmail.com.
- Initial load is now much faster than gmail.com.
- Searching seems to be a fair bit quicker than hotmail.com was and is fairly robust. I can't compare the search speed to gmail since I don't have much in gmail. At least nothing to compare to my 15+ years of e-mail in my hotmail account. But that said, searching is blazing fast. I'm rather astonished at the speed with which searches are carried out.
The bad.
- I don't like the layout as much as hotmail.com
- Can't go back to hotmail.com anymore.
Overall, it'll likely just be a matter of getting used to it. I'll probably still continue to access my mail account through Outlook itself, however.
Regards,
SB
Silent_Buddha
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Just noticed something else kinda cool at Outlook.com.
Quickviews. The one there that I'll use the most (when using the web interface, which is rare) is the shipping updates. That's pretty handy. Now if I can figure out how to make one that will automatically pull in anything related to bills I have to pay.
Ah, and found a way to switch back to hotmail.com interface I think. Might play with that later, although the more I use outlook.com the more it grows on me.
Regards,
SB
Quickviews. The one there that I'll use the most (when using the web interface, which is rare) is the shipping updates. That's pretty handy. Now if I can figure out how to make one that will automatically pull in anything related to bills I have to pay.
Ah, and found a way to switch back to hotmail.com interface I think. Might play with that later, although the more I use outlook.com the more it grows on me.
Regards,
SB
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